Old Is The New New

O. Henry, “The Duel” (1910): Your opponent is the City. You must do battle with it from the time the ferry-boat lands you on the island until either it is yours or it has conquered you. The battle is to decide whether you shall become a New Yorker or turn the rankest outlander and Philistine. [...]

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“Do not fancy that an intermission of writing is a decay of kindness.”

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Alec Guinness on Star Wars, The Simpsons, syphilis, and Marlene Dietrich’s alien lover.

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What the hell, it’s Canada Day, I can re-recycle my alternate Canadian histories from six (egad) years ago.

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Brett Holman (Airminded) is blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909.

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“Paleobloggers dig up material from our analog past to see what makes it tick.” Snarkmarket gives me a new category name, and reminds me that I always meant to do more of this than I do.

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What appears to be H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book: creepy images, story ideas, and games he’d like to run. (Via Felix Gilman.)

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Totally awesome kid trick-or-treating in totally awesome costume, ca. 1971.

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A Mad Libs-style game book from ca. 1912.

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The cat eater and cannibal who gave the world “Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay!”

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